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...family kept his bullet-scarred corpse on ice at home for several days before burying it in a secret location. "If we had let the police take the body, they might have pretended that nothing illegal happened," Lin's brother told TIME on Tuesday after the clandestine burial. "We took pictures of the bullet holes and have the body to prove what really took place." Still, he says, there's not much else he and his family can do. "We cannot take any more suffering," he says, noting that most villagers are hiding at home because they are frightened...
...walking through the history of China, Japan, and Korea—albeit a history with zoological undertones.The first eye-catching piece is a standing horse sculpture from the second century. With caramel brown glaze, the horse was an early Chinese status symbol that wealthy citizens would include in their burial tombs. Pieces like this sculpture portray animals of the real world. But, Mowry says, that “we wanted to show there are more animals than just horses.” Beyond these equestrian pieces are animals as diverse as the monkey, tiger, and snake. Animals of the fantasy...
...violent death came to Kala Dhaka, in spades. A 7.6-magnitude earthquake slammed into the Himalayas. Entire villages were devastated; in an instant, stone houses turned into burial mounds. The Indus river, flowing at the bottom of the valleys, recalls one tribal elder, Mohammed Said, "looked like water boiling inside a tea kettle...
...many cases, people didn't wait for the army. Thousands of volunteers headed into the mountains, carrying shovels, pickaxes and iron rods to dig for survivors. Down in the main cities, well-wishers donated tents, blankets, food and even cloth for burial shrouds. Among the first responders were militant Islamic groups, who seized on the catastrophe to blame Musharraf's alliance with the U.S. in the war on terrorism for incurring Allah's wrath. In Chehla Bandi village, members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an outlawed group sympathetic to al-Qaeda, cooked food, helped bury the dead and shoveled through...
...time to grant an honorable burial to the six-party talks was June 2004, at the end of the third round. At that session, North Korea categorically rejected the U.S.-backed objective of "complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization." Pyongyang countered with its own preferred resolution, which would provide the North with energy and other aid, plus security guarantees and diplomatic recognition, in return for freezing its nuclear programs. Because that proposed freeze covered only plutonium-based weapons (Pyongyang has never publicly acknowledged its secret uranium-enrichment program), North Korea's proposal amounted to international payments for a temporary?and only...